Senior Associate, Core Operations
Job Description
Why Patients Need You
At Pfizer, we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives. We apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety, and value in the discovery, development, and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments, and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments, and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 170 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on us.
Pfizer has expanded our global footprint with a new office in Tampa at the Heights Union East Building. We are quickly building a community of colleagues that align with our common patient-focused purpose and Pfizer’s core values. Pfizer Tampa is a strategic powerhouse that creates an atmosphere for innovative ideas and best practices across Finance, HR, Digital, and Sourcing. Pfizer colleagues are diverse and highly skilled with extensive knowledge, deep expertise, and strategic capabilities across multiple functions. Pfizer Tampa is a dynamic and energizing environment where diverse colleagues are co-located to facilitate greater colleague collaboration, new ways of working, and enhanced simplification through more integrated end-to-end solutions.
Your in-depth knowledge and financial skills will keep our products in production and our innovators innovating. Whether you are part of establishing, coordinating, researching, or administering financial operations, your role is critical to getting our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.
Role Summary
This role reports into the Pfizer Core Operations group. Core Operations is part of the Controller’s organization in Pfizer and plays a vital role in the collection, consolidation and reporting of financial information for the company, as well as the preparation of metrics over various financial reporting areas. The team collaborates with global, market, regional and HQ Business Finance as it relates to various data collection activities (sales, trial balance, inventory markup and supplemental/disclosure data), data submission requirements, systems/process training, and internal and external financial reporting and analysis.
This position within the Core Operations group is responsible for the preparation/review of key financial schedules/analytics and execution of financial reporting processes that are critical to the consolidated financial reporting both internally and externally for Pfizer. In accomplishing this, the individual in this role will interact with colleagues globally across numerous functions within Pfizer’s Finance & Business Operations organization and will be expected to not only execute their job responsibilities with a high degree of integrity and quality, but also be an active contributor to continuous improvement initiatives.
Role Responsibilities
Prepare quarterly and monthly schedules in the Flash Package provided to senior management.
Provide summarized analysis of assigned P&L areas, and present results in quarterly review meetings with the Controller and other finance executives.
Review and consolidate balance sheet activity for leveraging knowledge of business operations and expertise in financial systems/tools.
Prepare footnote disclosures for inclusion in external filings 10Q/10K, including related External Reporting tasks.
Prepare US GAAP journal entries in support of legal entity rationalization projects and Tax Reorganizations ensuring proper equity accounting throughout ownership chains, intercompany account positions, and consolidated company eliminations.
Prepare metrics over financial reporting for Management with a focus on continuous improvement geared toward conveying risks/opportunities through review of KPI’s.
Assist in identifying and executing continuous improvement opportunities in order to achieve ‘Best In Class’ close process and partner with manager and process stakeholders to implement continuous improvement opportunities to enhance quality, increase efficiency, and improve effectiveness of the close process.
Assist with project management for special projects for which Controllers representation is required, including business acquisitions and divestitures, financial systems implementations, changes to accounting policy.
Develop training materials and instructions on various topics including consolidations processes, financial reporting tools and applications.
Interact with and address questions from business finance partners regarding reporting issues, analysis of results, and need for adjusting entries for assigned areas. Examine reports and/or other financial information from the field and prepare adjusting journal entries, as necessary.
Ensure internal controls for assigned areas are completed in accordance with SOX requirements and company policies.
Collaborate with internal and external auditors to ensure audit requests are responded to timely and effectively.
Develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders (Tax, Treasury, External Reporting, Commercial Finance, Global Business Services, etc.)
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
1-3 years of experience in accounting, audit, or financial reporting.
Fluency in Microsoft Office applications.
Solid understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting requirements.
Demonstrate a sense of urgency and agility.
Effectively manage multiple tasks and prioritize demands.
Self-starter who brings energy, enthusiasm and a positive attitude to every responsibility and project.
Has a passion for new ideas and a sustained focus on continuous improvement initiatives.
Team player with the ability to establish positive and productive working relationships with others.
Demonstrates an ongoing desire to learn and a commitment to personal development.
Possesses strong oral and written communication skills; can organize and conduct meetings and effectively convey ideas to others either in an individual or group setting.
Preferred Qualifications
Big 4 auditing experience.
CPA license or master’s degree.
Experience with a large, multi-national company.
Previous Project Management experience.
Competency with HFM/FCCS, Essbase or other financial reporting/consolidation software.
OTHER JOB DETAILS:
Last day to apply: August 2, 2024
Work Location Assignment: Must be able to work in Tampa Pfizer office 2-3 days per week or as needed by the business.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.
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